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Diamonds On The Inside · Ben Harper

EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove C
57 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diamonds On The Inside on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-73 and ride through bars 74-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 13 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Diamonds On The Inside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Diamonds On The Inside?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Diamonds On The Inside hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Diamonds On The Inside?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED